The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
We also write to heighten our own awareness of life... We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection... We write to be able to transcend our life, to reach beyond it...to teach ourselves to speak with others, to record the journey into the labyrinth. We write to expand our world when we feel strangled, or constricted, or lonely... When I don't write, I feel my world shrinking... I feel I lose my fire and my color.
Things aren't the way they are, they're the way you are
The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
Poetry is the alchemy which teaches us to convert ordinary materials into gold.
The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic.
Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.
What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
I walk ahead of myself in perpetual expectancy of miracles.
The risk it takes to remain tight inside the bud is more painful than the risk it takes to blossom. We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
I only believe in fire. Life. Fire. Being myself on fire I set others on fire. Never death. Fire and life.
I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
People living deeply have no fear of death.
We cannot cure the evils of politics with politics.
The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
Your eyes make me shy
I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
Will you come down and kiss me good night?
Perfection is static, And I am in full progress.
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
I wanted to remember in order to be able to return.
If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.
Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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